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Infrastructure investment needs rethink

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... approaches to project management do not fit the demands of today's large, complex programs." In a recent 2018 macroeconomic outlook, RARE Infrastructure co-chief executive and co-chief investment officer Nick Langley said he expects infrastructure firms ...

Chief economist update: No stealth tapering, no exit strategy...yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... with the BOJ's for continued moderate growth in overseas economies - one that's backed by the latest IMF World Economic Outlook report predicting world output to quicken to 3.9% this year and the next from 3.7% in 2017. The same one that's upgraded Japanese ...

SG Hiscock wins small cap mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... combined with a credit-intensive bottom-up process, will add significant value for our investors given the challenging outlook for sovereign debt markets."

Supervised Investments wins global fixed income mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... combined with a credit-intensive bottom-up process, will add significant value for our investors given the challenging outlook for sovereign debt markets." Just last week, Alpha Fund Managers awarded another global fixed income mandate: this time to ...

Chief economist update: The good news and the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... correct, that'll be the peak. The IMF forecast Chinese GDP growth to slow to 6.5% this year (October 2017 World Economic Outlook report). The more up-to-date growth projections from the World Bank (released earlier this month) see GDP slowing to 6.4% ...

Chief economist update: Consumers don't spend on confidence alone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... "Sentiment has continued to recover from the weakness seen in the September quarter last year, bolstered by a less threatening outlook for interest rates and improving confidence around the economy and jobs. While the mood is 'cautiously optimistic' ...

Chief economist update: One hike this year, one hike next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... businesses and asset prices to them - remain the most significant influence on, and source of uncertainty about, the economic outlook". Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund manager, economist ...

The darling buds of inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... eventually feed through into higher inflation overall. All these provide an upside risk to the Fed's growth and inflation outlook - just as it figured Trump's reflationary policies would in early 2017 - and with it, the risk of a more aggressive Fed ...

Chief economist update: Bond sell bomb shell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... 1.76% by the end of 2012. Yields are currently around 2.5%. But I digress. The heading of the World Bank's latest global outlook report says it all "Broad-Based Upturn-Will It Last?" Although the current growth projections have been revised higher from ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to taper?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
... give more merit to this renewed bout of taper thoughts. After many months of expressing its optimism on the country's outlook on growth and to a lesser extent, inflation, the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) long-hoped for "virtuous cycle" has started to turn. ...